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Plot Summary:
Eiji Sakuma is a judge. He also leads the group Shinbunshi in secret The group holds court on a video site and imposes punishment against defendants. Detectives, including Erika Yoshino, attempt to take down the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
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Neo Ultra Q (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ultra Q has returned, and continues investigations of monstrous appearances and strange ecological phenomenons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Saintly Woman (2014)
Plot Summary:
When I was 17-years-old, Maria was a college student and worked as a private tutor. Her student was me. She left a last message to me, "when you graduate from college and become an adult, can you become my lover?," and then she disappeared. 10 years later, I meet her again. She is now a suspect in a serial murder case and I am a lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Important Witness Private Detective (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kei Maneki works as a model. He has bad luck with murder cases taking place when he works. Kei Maneki becomes an important witness in these murder cases. To clear his name, Kei Maneki and his model friends Itsuki Suo and Toma Shimon attempt to solve the murder cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Testimony of N (2014)
Plot Summary:
University student Sugishita Nozomi, Naruse Shinji, Ando Nozomi and Nishizaki Masato end up coming upon the scene of the murder of the Noguchi couple, because of a plan they had devised. Nishizaki is arrested at the scene and is given a 10-year prison term because of his voluntary confession. 10 years later, Takano Shigeru, a former police officer who has misgivings about the verdict of this case, starts to pursue the truth. He is convinced that it all began as a result of an incident caused by Nozomi and Naruse on an island in the Seto Inland Sea in the summer 15 years. “They committed a crime at that time. It was for the sake of each N.”.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Call Me The Shadow: Adventures of a Housewife Detective (2011)
Plot Summary:
Full-time homemaker, Serina, is madly in love with her elite securities manager husband, Takefumi. But ever since they got married two years ago as two incurably infatuated lovers, her husband has changed. He has begun to find her unmitigated affection towards him to be “over the top” and “irksome.” As a result, he has begun to avoid her. Then one evening returning from a dinner party, Serina finds herself caught up in a little incident where she encounters a private detective named Haruki. She ends up taking a job working at his office. Though somewhat clumsy and wielding no particular talent to speak of, Serina gradually realizes that she was made for detective work. And in the process of striving for the affection of the husband she loves, she too finds herself changing and growing into a beautifully strong and independent woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Detective versus Detectives (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kitagawa Keiko plays Sasaki Rena, a detective who risks her life investigating detectives for her dead sister. Beautiful, intelligent, and with a great memory, the talented woman judges situations and chooses the most appropriate course of action. Her brutal past surrounding her sister's death inspires her to learn everything she can about detectives, leading her to visit the Suma Research Company. As the sole member of the Anti-Detective Department responsible for investigating and pursuing unethical detectives, she is a solitary lady detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective
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JK Is a Snow Woman (2015)
Plot Summary:
A love story between Snow Women sisters and a male high school student.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Unfair (2006)
Plot Summary:
A no-nonsense detective with a reputation for pushing limits investigates a rash of brutal murders connected by a series of cryptic short stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: clever, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective, realistic
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HUNTER - Women After Reward Money (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s International Terminal, and receives a reward of 1 million yen. However, she is half-forced to resign from her job as a cabin attendant because of this roundup. Furthermore, her younger sister, Akane, has made her a guarantor and disappeared, leaving her 10-year-old daughter, Haru behind. Rei starts to live with a reluctant Haru at ‘Shunkato’, the small eating house that Akane has been running. There is a firsthand account of Akane meeting a ‘Shunkato’ customer on the day she went missing. Rei brings the photograph of the man whom Akane met to Tsukishima Police Precinct, and learns that there is a 1 million yen bounty because he is a wanted criminal. The lack of motivation of the attending detective, Gondo Takeshi of the precinct’s Community Safety Division, spurs her to decide that she has to arrest this criminal who has some sort of connection to her sister. And so, Rei becomes a bounty hunter together with the ladies who gather at ‘Shunkato’.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Hello, Detective Hedgehog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take on a string of challenging cases that no one else wants to take on.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, detective
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The Tragedy of W (2012)
Plot Summary:
"W no Higeki" is an adaptation of a novel by Natsuki Shizuko, which was first published in 1982. It was turned into a theatrical movie in 1984, and has seen numerous adaptions into TV drama in 1983, 1986, 2001 and 2010 respectively. This new version of the story has Takei Emi playing two different characters with the exact same face. One is Mako, the future successor of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical conglomerate. She has always lived in comfort, but yearns for freedom. The other character is Satsuki, a lowly cleaner in a show pub who lives in solitude and destitution, and would do anything to get money, including prostituing her own body. One day, they met and decided to exchange lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Lost ID (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shinichi Todo is handsome and smart. He is loved by family, friends and his girlfriend. Everything in his life seems to go well, but, one day, someone with the same name is arrested. After that, his smooth life changes. An imposter takes his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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Alibi Breaker (2020)
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In a local shopping street in Nano prefecture, far from the metropole, young Tokino Mitani runs a clocksmith that she inherited from her grandfather all by herself. Her main job is to repair watches and clocks, but she is about to start a side business, a service to break alibis for a fee of 5000 yen per case with a guarantee that the fee is billed only when the alibi is broken. . One day, Tokino meets Yoshiyuki Saji, a detective who is newly assigned to the prefectural police department. Saji cannot break a very solid alibi at a case he is working on and secretly asks Tokino to break it. The case is very challenging, but will Tokino lead him to solve the case!?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Bull Doctor (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bull Doctor is a Japanese television drama series that aired on NTV from 6 July to 14 September 2011.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, intellectual, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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Keigo Higashino Mysteries (2012)
Plot Summary:
11 mysteries, 11 actors. Japan's favorite mystery author, the world of Higashino Keigo comes to life on screen through an assortment of short stories.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, suspense, stylized
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Reverse (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kazuhisa Fukase graduated from a prestigious university, but he leads a boring life. His only strength is making delicious coffee. Whenever he makes coffee, he is reminded of his friend Yoshiki Hirosawa. He was friends with Yoshiki Hirosawa back in their university days, but Yoshiki Hirosawa died on a snowboarding trip 10 years ago. One day, he meets Mihoko Ochi at a coffee shop. He is strongly attracted to her. Kazuhisa Fukase goes to a professor’s retirement celebration at a university. There, he meets Kosuke Asai who went snowboarding with Yoshiki Hirosawa on that fateful trip. Journalist Toshio Ogasawara also appears there. He has been investigating Yoshiki Hirosawa's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Medical Team Lady da Vinci’s Diagnosis (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shiho works as a neurosurgeon at Nishitokyo General Hospital. She decides to quit her profession after hallucinating during surgery. Her ex-teacher Masayuki Kitabatake is the director at Tokyo University Hospital and he persuades Shiho to work at his hospital in the diagnosis department which consists of all female doctors. Shiho, who is more stubborn in her will to save other patients, sometimes come in conflicts with the other doctors there, but she cooperates with them to reveal a mysterious malady.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: medical drama, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense
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Final Cut (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Keisuke Nakamura was a high school student, his mother was accused of killing a girl and then his mother committed suicide. 12 years later, Keisuke Nakamura tries to find the girl's real killer and also take revenge upon those responsible for his mother's suicide. He targets people from the media who covered the case and he crosses paths with sisters who hold a key to what happened. Keisuke Nakamura falls in love with one of the sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Stone's Cocoon (2015)
Plot Summary:
The body of a person who died an unnatural death is discovered encased in mortar like concrete in the basement of an abandoned building. Why was the person murdered this way? The next day, the investigation task force receives a phone call from the criminal who calls himself Tremi during a meeting to discuss the investigation of the case. Then, in a short time after her transfer to the First Investigative Division, Kisaragi Toko becomes the negotiator. Tremi mocks and provokes the police while offering hints regarding the murder. A second murder soon occurs just as Tremi had warned. The victim's head has been covered with concrete as they had expected. What is the criminal's motive and why is the criminal fixated with concrete? The criminal's surprising actual target soon emerges.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Crystal's Beating (2016)
Plot Summary:
From a gruesome murder to a series of bomb blasts, it's explosive storytelling from beginning to end! This “Crystal's Beating” (Suishō no Kodō) is the sequel to the immensely popular crime suspense drama series “Cocoon of Stone” (Ishi no Mayu), and the long-awaited second instalment in the “Murder Analysis Team” (Satsujin Bunseki-han) series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Phantom Thief YAMANEKO (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yamaneko is notoriously elusive, but wherever he shows up, enormous amounts of money gets stolen. Evidence of the audacious crime is left scattered all over the place. In every episode, Yamaneko the hero thief throws a splash of “rotten justice” in your face. Pretentiously calling himself a “genius thief,” Yamaneko is arrogant and acts like he's the king of the world. Everything he does is bold and daring, but he remains elusive. There is indeed no match for Yamaneko. He goes by one creed alone—“I will steal but I won’t deprive.” Why does he steal? Just what is he all about?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ferris Wheel at Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama about three families who live in an upscale neighborhood. On the surface, it appears they have attained wealth and happiness, but trouble brews behind closed doors.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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The Locked Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
Enomoto Kei is a security "otaku" working for a security firm, devoted to improving the securities system on a daily basis. He is not an easy person to familiarize oneself with, always collected and calm, unapproachable, a maniac in Physics, Science, Architecture and profound in other basic theoretical foundation. He is certain and proud of the fact that there is no key which he cannot unlock. One day, Kei is asked to help reveal a mystery behind a locked room murderer. While he lacks any interest in solving the mystery, he is inevitably intrigued by the term, "Closed Doors" and decides to take on the position. He works side by side with Aoto Junko and Serizawa Gou, who are lawyers working at a major law firm. Junko is pure and forward, acting upon her instincts while Serizawa is a prideful elitist who sees time as money, and therefore, will not take on any job that is unprofitable. Possessing a vast amount of knowledge and acute insightfulness, Kei is able to unlock the closed doors and unravel the secrets leading to the solution. Never before has there been a drama focused solely on closed doors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Emergency Interrogation Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yukiko Makabe takes a transfer to a special interrogation team "Kintori".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Siren (2015)
Plot Summary:
Satomi Shinobu works in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The Mobile Investigation Unit conducts the initial investigation at all crime scenes. He works with Inokuma Yuki. They are a couple, but they keep their relationship a secret at work. They both hope to work at the #1 Investigation Station. One day, they meet beautiful Tachibana Kara at the site where a dead body was found. Kara appears at the other crime scenes involving grotesque murders. She shows an interest in Yuki. Satomi Shinobu thinks it's a bad sign for Yuki. To protect his girlfriend from danger, he struggles to find uncover the truth behind the serial murder cases and Kara’s identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, manga, detective, suspense thriller
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Kurokouchi (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detective Keita Kurokouchi (Tomoya Nagase) continues to extort money from politicians whom Keita Kurokouchi has information on. By using his information he is able to crack unsolved cases. Rookie Detective Mayo Seike (Ayame Gouriki) is excellent with her job and also a bit naive. She conducts an internal investigation on Detective Keita Kurokouchi, but they become partners and work on cases together.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa (2016)
Plot Summary:
Criminologist Himura Hideo gets so much pleasure out of being in crime scenes that he's even confessed to having wanted to kill someone. Constantly seeking out the ultimate crime, he is indeed a man with quite a few issues. Mystery writer Arisugawa Arisu, on the other hand, keeps a close eye on Himura's investigations and writes about them but at times completely misses the point. Not at all the type of guy you'd call dependable, Arisugawa nonetheless professes to be the protector of the clumsy Himura. Although these two men appear like they have no business being in crime scenes, they mitigate each other's shortcomings and use their compelling logic to unravel the elaborately woven tricks left behind by the criminals. It's almost as if Himura and Arisugawa use incredible magical powers to tease out unimaginable truths!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Cruel Crowd (2017)
Plot Summary:
21 female high school students are locked in a classroom and their footage is shown all over the world in real time. The only way to escape is to receive many "likes" from the audience.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Black Leather Notebook (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of how a bank clerk becomes a Ginza nightclub owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kindaichi's best friend is involved with the school film club where members are found murdered. Can he protect her before she become the next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective